Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
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PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Brief presented in February 2012 to the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, in relation to the Committee’s study on Bill C-10, An Act to enact the Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act and to amend the State Immunity Act, the Criminal...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This document will inform you about:when there is a legal duty to disclose HIV-positive status;the current evidence about the risk of HIV transmission with and without condoms;the current state of the law about condom use and HIV disclosure; andwhy people who use...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
The objective of this paper is to examine the human rights content and impact of the Global Fund’s work in three areas — grant-making processes, grants, and advocacy, especially to see how this unique institution manages the balancing act to which its...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
"We urge the Russian government to abolish the criminal ban on methadone, to support rather than repress harm reduction programs and workers, and to reform its drug laws so as to place health concerns, not further pointless and harsh criminalization and...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
Two provincial Courts of Appeal have recently released unanimous decisions that clarify the law regarding the obligation imposed upon people living with HIV to disclose their HIV status prior to sexual relations. The decision of the Manitoba Court of Appeal in R v....
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Ukrainian Ministry of Health Resolution No. 634 dated 29 July 2010 brought into force amendments that significantly reduce the legal threshold for “small,” “large” and “extra large” quantities of certain types of illegal drugs,...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
1. Laws and practices that criminalize people living with HIV and vulnerable to HIVA) People who use drugsB) People in prisonC) Sex workersD) Criminalization of HIV non-disclosure2. Laws and practices that facilitate or impede HIV-related treatment accessA)...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Human rights violations committed in the name of drug control are common in Thailand, including the unlawful application of the death penalty and the denial of the highest attainable standard of health and numerous concerns with respect to compulsory treatment....
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
"…[We] speak to issues of sexual orientation, gender identity and human rights, on behalf of 119 NGOs (21 ECOSOC-accredited) from over 60 countries (see attached list), and more than 300+ participants from 23 countries who endorsed the Joint Statement...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
Please note that the sections of this document that describe the current state of the criminal law as it relates to HIV non-disclosure do not take into account the recent Supreme Court of Canada decisions in R. v. Mabior and R. v. D.C. We are presently working to...
